Washing machine



i 1,639,872 A. G. WANEK WASHING MACHINE Filed Jul-.V so. 1926 HTTOZZJVE-Y.

Patented Aug. 23, 1927.

Px w until-Lama assen ALBERT G. WANEK, OF WAHPETON, NORTH DAKOTAQ -WASI-II-N'Gr MACHINE.

Application filed. July 30, 1926. Serial No. 125,937.

My invention relates to clothes washing machines and the object is to produce a washing machine improved in various ways as will now be described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved wa hing machine.

161g. 2 1s a right hand end elevation of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section substantially as on the line 33 in Fig. 2, in enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on the line 4 4: in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 in Fig.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 6 designates a suitable frame which may have casters '7 and carries two end stands 8, one of which stands holds a plain liiearing 9 and the other a bearing 9 formed as a part of the gear housing 10.

dournaled in said bearings is the main shaft ll of the machine, and on said shaft is journaled the heads lt2--l3 of a cylinder let in which the clothes are washed. The head 12 is secured by rivets, or similar means, 15, to a flange 16 of a sleeve l7which rotates on the shaft 11 and has secured on it a gear 18 driven by a g( {1' l9 which mounted in the housing on a siort shaft 20 and turned by a crank 20 which crank represents also a pulley, gear or motor for running the machine.

'llhe face of gear 19 broad enough to engage and turn also an idler gear 21 which is loose on a stud i 32 and in mesh with a small gear 23. The latter gear (23) is secured by a key E241; on the sha ft 11 which is thus rotated as also a spider 25 secured at 526 to the shaft and forming one head of a concentrically arranged small cylinder 27 the other end of which has a similar head 25. (l ne or both of these heaos may be see dinal corrugations 82 and spiral ribs 33, the latter arranged in reverse direction to those on the large cylinder, and as the two cylinders rotate at different speeds and in opposite directions the result is that in operation, all the corrugations and ribs cooperate in agitating and rubbing the clothes and turning them over and over in and above the water W. The spiral ribs of one cylinder tend to move the clothes toward one end of too machine and the spiral ribs of the other cylinder moves them in the opposite direction, thus oscillating the clothes horizontally.

In addition to such multiple agitation and rubbing, the clothes are constantly being turned over by the oppositely moving faces of the two cylinders. Thus, in Fig. 5, the clothes (not shown) are carried upward as at A-A until they drop downward as arrows B into contact with the small roller which sends them down again into the water W from which they are soon lifted again as at A-A. If any of the clothes should get over into the side (l they will either sink and reappear at A--A or they may be carried there by the upper side of the small cylinder.

After the clothes have thus been put through the washing process in soapy, hot water for a brief period they are removed from the machine, wrung and hung up to dry.

iVhat I claim is:

1. In a clothes washing machine a frame, a horizontal shaft journaled in the frame, a comparatively small washing cylinder fixed on the shaft, a larger cylinder spaced concentrically about the small cylinder and having its heads rotatable on the shaft, a gear housing on the frame and about one end of the shaft, a set of meshing gears driven by suitable means and arranged to rotate the cylinders in opposite directions, each cylinder having its clothes contacting face provided with a series of longitudinal corrugations and a number of spirally arranged ribs projecting above the corrugations.

In a clothes washing machine a frame. a horizontal shaft journaled in the frame, a comparatively small washing cylinder fixed on the shaft, a larger cylinder spaced con centrically about the small cylinder and having its heads rotatable on the shaft, a gear housing on the frame and about one end of the shaft a set of meshing gears driven by suitable means and arranged to rotate the cylinders in opposite directions, each cylinder having its clothes contacting face provided with a series of longitudinal corrugations and a number of angularly arranged ribs projecting above the corrugations, said ribs on one cylinder directed in opposite di 10 rection to those on the other cylinder.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALBERT G. WANEK. 

